Dr. Wang’s Ph.D. thesis advisor: Dr. Scott K. Holland was invited to give a talk on November 21, 2016 at the Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior (CB3). His talk titled “Evidence that neurovascular coupling underlying the BOLD effect increases with age during childhood” covered one part of his research area and his findings raise…
Dr. Wang attended the CEHS Showcase at City Campus Union: Centennial Room (1400 R Street, Lincoln, NE 68588). Research Team at College of Education and Human Sciences (CEHS) organized this event aiming to facilitate communication among faculty members and advocate research among students.
Dr. Wang gave a talk titled “White Matter Development in at-risk children and typical controls” at Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences-Seminar in the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). After the talk, Dr. Wang went to have lunch with faculty members in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Dr. Norton came to CB3 and give a talk on happy money. He is the Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, and a member of Harvard’s Behavioral Insights Group. He holds a B.A. in Psychology and English from Williams College and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Princeton University. He…
Dr. Wang went to the four-day FreeSurfer Training in Boston. This trip provided her the opportunity to get a deep understanding of structural MRI data analysis using FreeSurfer. FreeSurfer is a software package for the analysis and visualization of structural and functional neuroimaging data from cross-sectional or longitudinal studies. It is developed by the Laboratory…
Dr. Mike Dodd, Associate Professor from the Department of Psychology invited Dr. Wang to give a talk at the “Cabin” which is like a course in seminar format offered to graduate students.
Dr. Shah from QuSpin visited CB3. He brought Atomic MEG sensor for testing. The picture showed him and Dr. Barlow was testing the sensor using the magnetic shield bore from the Department of Physics. Photo gallery:
AFNI group came to CB3 and offered faculty and students a-week AFNI training course. AFNI (Analysis of Functional NeuroImages) is a set of C programs for processing, analyzing, and displaying functional MRI (FMRI) data – a technique for mapping human brain activity. It runs on Unix+X11+Motif systems, including SGI, Solaris, Linux, and Mac OS X.…
The Dyslexia Foundation EXTRAORDINARY BRAIN SYMPOSIUM XV with a focus on “The Geschwind – Galaburda Hypothesis 30 years later” was held on June 19-24, 2016 at the Buccaneer Hotel at St. Croix, US Virgin Islands. Dr. Wang gave her oral presentation on the topic of Neural substrates of the executive attention network in children at-risk…
Dr. Wang gave a presentation about her research plan at the MRI Users’ Meeting organized by Dr. Jennifer Nelson.